Been trying recently to squeeze in a ‘crash course’ of the Alpha related ‘The Marriage Course’ and very good it is proving too. Although we have in mind using it as a tool for the many needy marriages we encounter it has been amazing just how beneficial it has been to us (after 40 years of marriage!) and we have only just got slightly more than half way through. So it is recommended.

I shall miss some though as I’m off tomorrow on a ‘flying visit’ to the UK for the funeral of a former colleague and neighbour during the 80’s and a continuing supportive good friend since then – Pete Goodland from Whitchurch, Hants. Friends are so valuable and this man with his keen theological mind, sense of humour, gift of story telling & gardening has been a gem to so many of us. He will be missed…